Yankees go(ing) home

Well, the "drama" was drawn out over a couple of weeks, but the chickens have finally come home to roost: Ghana 2-1 USA. I didn't watch today's game, but frankly there are other, better teams I'd rather watch. Either US Soccer is still not ready for the big time, or perhaps (more likely) this particular team wasn't ready to play.

Update

Jamie Trecker from the Fox Soccer Channel puts it well in his article, USA needs more than heart to be a winner:

Soccer in the USA will never be as it is in Europe or Latin America. It should stop trying. Soccer will never be a proxy for religion or a stand-in for battles in pasts, recent and distant.

What soccer can be, however, is a sport that Americans define themselves by in the same way that fans define themselves by their baseball team or city's NBA franchise. The tribalism of soccer in America will reflect itself not in its opposition to other groups or clans, but to other sports themselves. A consumer culture such as America, can expect nothing more.